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Artist
Massimo Gasbarroni
12+ albums
Classicalitalianguitaristclassic guitar
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"A true virtuoso" praises him the "SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG"; “AN EXTRAORDINARY COMMAND OF RESONANCES AND TIMBRE EFFECTS”" sentences "L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO”. From Stockholm the "SVENSKA DAGBLADET" writes, "He is a wonderful musician". From Oslo the "AFTENPOSTEN" headlines him "A MASTER OF THE GUITAR AT THE MUNCH MUSEUM". In China Xu-Xangorium writes in "BEIJING WEEKEND", "The musician seemed to have the magic power of lifting one's soul above one's body" and "A shivering sensation along one's backbone ". During his long activity, the Italian guitar soloist performed in many famous halls, such as in the Tchaicovski Hall of Moscow, in the Great Hall of St.Petersburg Philharmonic, in Tel-Aviv, Peking, Oslo and Stockholm, in Madrid, Rome, Athens, Munich and Hamburg. The repertoire of the maestro Gasbarroni, is mainly based on 17th 19th and 20th centuries: Gaspar Sanz, Robert De Visées, Lodovico Roncalli, Johan Sebastian Bach, Jan Kaspar Mertz, Isaac Albeniz, Agustin Barrios Mangoré, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Gasbarroni is especially appreciated and known for his interpretations by Heitor Villa-Lobos. In his frequent travels in South America, critics and musicians, like Rhazes Hernàndez Lòpez and Israel Peña from Caracas, have written of him "ángel de la música" and " beyond any doubt he belongs to the category of the greatest guitarists of our times". Gasbarroni began his studies in Rome with G. B. Noceti first, then in the Conservatory Santa Cecilia of Rome, completing hi